(03-10-2026, 06:05 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Why? Is that "more attested"? Less unusual?
More plausible.
Many statistical features are unlike any 15th century ciphertext (simple substitution with some homophones and nulls): drifts, rigid word structure, extreme variations, does not behave like flowing text. Ciphers typically used well identifiable symbols, whereas the VMS favors ambiguity. All of them are compatible with a clumsy attempt to create pseudo-text with low-tech copy/paste methods and (evolving) constraints/rules/preferences, because the scribes just didn't care to enforce consistent rules/procedures.
Sure there are more than two possibilities, there could be some other type of meaning (music? divination? game record?) or even a plaintext hidden in a steganographic manner (it would be a massive overkill to use such a technique) but Occam's razor makes them dispensable.